Interesting you should mention this sort of scheme.
I wodner if the "National Disability Insurance" scheme our Government
are planning to put into place is similar to the one you're referring to
in your country Mary.
Under our scheme a 1.5% lebby will be applied to all tax payers and even
pensioners as well as I understand it, the scheme will enable those with
a disability to get the adaptive equipment they require, pay for care
and so forth so when the scheme is introduced I can't help wondering
whether the price of adaptive and specialist equipment/software will rise.
On 22/09/2011 11:45 PM, Mary Stores wrote:
Hi Lynne,
Does the UK have a Voc Rehab equivaleent there? One of the reasons why
people say companies like GW Micro and FS and charge so much is
because our government is willing to pay for it.
It is good that you express your views instead of just leaving it up
to someone else who might care.
Mary
Quoting "Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith" <[email protected]>:
Hello everybody
At the risk of being accused of trying to put people down, I am going
to raise one further subject because this is something that I find
outrageous.
I was just looking on a website here in the UK which is that of a
company which sell equipment for the hearing impaired.
<http://www.connevans.co.uk>. They sell a series of items designed
for hearing aid users in an environment where it is difficult to hear
the spoken content. For instance in a lecture room, meeting or
similar where the desired audio source is either a considerable
distance from the listener, or where the background noise makes it
difficult for the listener to hear what's being said.
These devices use Bluetooth to communicate with a receiver that's
either at ear level or which interfaces with a hearing instrument to
give the listener access to a desired audio source via a radio
microphone which the speaker either wears or holds.
The transmitter and receiver, as a kit, cost over £1100 Pounds
Sterling. That, I would think, is way beyond the reach of most
individuals, and I think it's absolutely outrageous that a company
supposedly there to "help" the disabled is charging quite so much for
its products.
No; I'm not dumb! I understand fully that developers have to eat. I
also understand that companies and developers have to make a
reasonable profit on what they're selling. But that is outrageous.
We're talking nothing but a transmitter/receiver here and nobody can
convince me that a transmitter/receiver kit is going to cost anywhere
close to that kind of money to develop. That, to me, is profiteering
above and beyond the "reasonable" and I'm disgusted. I have already
written to the company concerned to express my views. I don't for a
second expect to receive a response; nor do I expect them to take
notice of what I said. But I have at least made my views known.
I think it's utterly wrong that those who are afflicted by what is a
very debilitating disability should be victimised in that way, just
because they can't take advantage of what the rest of us take for
granted.
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